AN ONLINE EMBER DAY* EDUCATIONAL EVENT FOR ROSTERED MINISTERS.
This pandemic has gone on and on. It's taking a toll on everyone in just about every area of our lives. This 3-hour interactive workshop will give you tools to lead your congregation to channel their exhaustion and frustration in creative ways that inspire curiosity and lead to constructive change. Active participation and breakout rooms will be incorporated into the day. The appreciative inquiry process will provide the strategy and the underlying principles, so you'll learn a bit about that too.
This workshop will build upon the Monthly Ministerium presentation on May 4, “Finding Hope in Exhaustion,” but does not require attendance to that introduction.
Ember Days help us to rekindle a passion for gospel by dedicating periodic days of study and refreshment.
RSVP BY MONDAY, MAY 23
$7 REGISTRATION FEE
Rev. Dr. Marjorie Funk-Pihl
Marj Funk-Pihl is the primary consultant for Living the Resurrection, a church vitality ministry. Marj uses the appreciative inquiry strategy and motivational psychology in her work with congregations and has seen the impact the pandemic is having on our life together.
* Unfamiliar with the tradition of Ember Days? Philip H. Pfatteicher sheds light on these observances in Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year:
"The turning of the four season of the natural world has been incorporated into the church's calendar. These are the Ember Days, the name derived from the German Quatember, a corruption of quattuor tempore, "the four times." ... Recognizing an increasing estrangement from the agricultural setting of the Church's calendar, [the Church] replaced the Ember Days with prayer for various needs set by regional conferences of Bishops... but eventually replaced by quarterly lectures and examinations in the catechism." (p.67)